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Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
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Biography of Emmanuel Leclainche (excerpt)
Auguste-Louis-Emmanuel Leclainche, born on August 29, 1861, in Piney (Aube) and died on November 26, 1953, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, internationally renowned for his scientific achievements in veterinary medicine, as well as for his major role in organizing veterinary education and French veterinary services.
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Biography of Sébastien Lespès (excerpt)
Sébastien Lespès (March 13, 1828 – August 24, 1897) was a French naval officer and vice-admiral.He played a significant role in the Sino-French War (1884–1885) as second-in-command of the Far East Squadron. Lespès began his career in 1844, participating in various missions, including the Crimean War and the Second Opium War.
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Biography of Léon Dehon (excerpt)
Léon-Gustave Dehon, SCJ (14 March 1843 – 12 August 1925), also known as Jean of the Sacred Heart, was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians). Dehon's focus in his ecclesial life was to express his closeness with workers but he especially promoted a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Biography of Louis Rouffe (excerpt)
Louis Rouffe, born on April 10, 1849, in La Tour-d'Aigues and died on December 21, 1885, in Marseille, was a French mime who succeeded Charles Deburau. He spent most of his career at the Alcazar in Marseille, where pantomime was highly popular.
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Biography of Adam Asnyk (excerpt)
Adam Asnyk (11 September 1838 – 2 August 1897), was a Polish poet and dramatist of the Positivist era. Life and work Born in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated to become an heir of his family's estate.As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw.
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Biography of Albrecht Penck (excerpt)
Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist, known as the father of Walther Penck. Born in Leipzig, he became a university professor in Vienna from 1885 to 1906, then in Berlin until 1927. He contributed to geomorphology and climatology, raising the international standing of the Vienna school of physical geography.
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Biography of Theodate Pope Riddle (excerpt)
Theodate Pope Riddle (February 2, 1867 – August 30, 1946) was an American architect and philanthropist, one of the first women architects in the United States and a survivor of the RMS Lusitania sinking. Her time of birth coems from her mother, in "Dearest of Geniuses: A Life of Theodate Pope Riddle" by Sandra L.
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Biography of Armando Diaz (excerpt)
Armando Diaz, 1st Duke della Vittoria, OSSA, OSML, OMS, OCI (5 December 1861 – 28 February 1928) was an Italian general and a Marshal of Italy. He is mostly known for his role as Chief of Staff of the Regio Esercito during World War I from November 1917. ![]()
Biography of Sister Dora (1832) (excerpt)
Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora, was born on 16 January 1832 in Hauxwell, North Riding of Yorkshire.Her time of birth comes from the biography Sister Dora: The Life of Dorothy Pattison by Jo Manton (Methuen, 1971). She was the eleventh of twelve children of Reverend Mark James Pattison and his wife Jane.
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Biography of Jules Destrée (excerpt)
Jules Destrée (Charleroi, 21 August 1863 – Brussels, 3 January 1936) was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician.The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. He wrote a Letter to the King in 1912, which is seen as the founding declaration of the Walloon movement.
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Biography of Antoni Ojrzynski (excerpt)
Antoni Ojrzyński (June 8, 1871 – July 16, 1967) was a Polish pharmacist, librarian, and book collector, as well as an active figure in tourism. After studying pharmacy, he worked in various pharmacies across Poland and opened his own in Nałęczów in 1898, later moving to Warsaw.
Biography of Léon Stienon (excerpt)
Léon Stienon was a distinguished Belgian physician, having earned his MD in 1874.In 1876, he became an associate at the University of Brussels and a year later, he served as a substitute histology lecturer at the same university. His career progressed as he became a Professor of Medical Matters in 1880 and then took on the role of doctor at the civilian hospitals of Brussels in 1881, later becoming Chief in 1884.
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Biography of Maximilian Bircher-Benner (excerpt)
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner (22 August 1867 – 24 January 1939), was a Swiss physician, significantly influenced nutrition science by promoting raw food vegetarianism and muesli.His time of birth comes from his niece. After experiencing health benefits from eating raw apples during a bout of jaundice, he conducted further experiments with raw foods, ultimately advocating for their nutritional superiority.
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Biography of Joel Chandler Harris (excerpt)
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at The Atlanta Constitution.
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Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
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Biography of Friedrich Fichter (excerpt)
Friedrich Fichter (6 July 1869 – 1952) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel.His main field of interest was electrochemistry.He initiated the founding of the scientific journal Helvetica Chimica Acta. Life Fichter was born on the July 6th, 1869 and attended the University of Basel from 1888 to 1890 and then the University of Strasbourg.
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Biography of Viktor von Sprösser (excerpt)
Viktor Felix Sprößer, born January 15, 1853, in Heilbronn and died December 26, 1925, in Stuttgart, was a Württemberg lieutenant general during World War I. The son of a merchant, he married Amalie Pfann.After completing his studies, he joined the Württemberg army in 1871 and advanced through the ranks.
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Biography of Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952.Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949).
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Biography of Jehan-Rictus (excerpt)
Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand, initially Gabriel Randon, who took the pseudonym Jehan Rictus (Jehan-Rictus with a hyphen from 1922), was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on September 21, 1867, and died in Paris on November 6, 1933. He was a French poet, famous for his works composed in the language of the common people of Paris of his time.
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Biography of Emily Blackwell (excerpt)
Emily Blackwell (October 8, 1826 – September 7, 1910) was a trailblazer in the 19th century, making numerous contributions in the field of medicine and women's rights. Emily was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, after Nancy Talbot Clark.
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Biography of John Fox Jr. (excerpt)
John Fox Jr.(December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer.Born in Stony Point, Kentucky, he studied English at Harvard University and became a reporter in New York.After working for the New York Times and the New York Sun, he published his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in 1892.
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Biography of Dolors Aleu i Riera (excerpt)
Dolores Aleu Riera (April 7, 1857, in Barcelona – February 19, 1913) was a Spanish medical doctor.She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. An only child, she began reading at age 5 and studied at the University of Barcelona, earning her undergraduate degree in 1874.
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Biography of Yan' Dargent (excerpt)
Yan' Dargent, pseudonym of Jean-Édouard Dargent (born October 15, 1824, in Saint-Servais, Finistère (not Saint-Servan), and died November 19, 1899, in Paris), was a French painter and illustrator primarily focused on Brittany. Initially working as a draftsman and construction inspector, he later devoted himself to art, becoming a prolific illustrator.
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Biography of William Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
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Biography of Hermann Seeger (excerpt)
Hermann Seeger (15 October 1857 – 23 February 1945) was a German genre and landscape painter.Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Hermann Seeger was born at Halberstadt.At the age of 18, he moved to Halle to study philosophy, but eventually, Seeger turned to art and enrolled at the Berlin Academy.
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Biography of Ettore Bortolotti (excerpt)
Ettore Bortolotti (6 March 1866 – 17 February 1947) was an Italian mathematician. Bortolotti was born in Bologna. He studied mathematics under Salvatore Pincherle and Cesare Arzelà in Bologna. He graduated in mathematics in 1889 at the University of Bologna, under Pincherle. He was appointed as lecturer to the Lyceum of Modica in Sicily in 1891, then studied one year in Paris as a post-graduate, before lecturing at the University of Rome in 1893.
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Biography of Théodore Thalès (excerpt)
Théodore Marius Jammet, known as Théodore Thalès or simply Thalès, was born on February 25, 1857, in Marseille and died on October 13, 1935, in Paris's 10th arrondissement.He was a French mime and silent film actor. Mime Thalès performed in pantomimes at the Palais de Cristal, where he enjoyed great success with the audience.
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Biography of Gustave Planchon (excerpt)
François Gustave Planchon, born October 29, 1833, in Ganges, France, and died April 13, 1900, in Montpellier, was a French pharmacist and entomologist. After earning his medical doctorate in 1859, he became a professor of botany in Lausanne and later earned doctorates in science and pharmacy in 1864.
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Biography of Abbé Chaupitre (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Victor Chaupitre, known as Abbé Chaupitre, born on October 22, 1859, in Gennes-sur-Seiche and died on April 21, 1934, in Naples, was a French Catholic priest and homeopath. Homeopathy, initiated by Hippocrates and developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the early 19th century, gained popularity in France, notably through healings within Napoleon III's circle.
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Biography of Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon (excerpt)
Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon (November 1, 1827 – September 21, 1907) was a French dermatologist and balneologist born in Grenoble. From 1848 he was interne des hôpitaux at Lyon, where he became affiliated with the hospice of Antiquaille.In 1858 he relocated to Saint-Martin-d'Uriage, where he participated in development of its spa.
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Biography of Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (excerpt)
Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (born May 2, 1827, in Tulle and died April 10, 1901, in Paris) was a publisher who succeeded Allan Kardec as the leader of the French Spiritist movement in the late 19th century. After spending his early years in Corrèze, Leymarie moved to Paris where he became involved in political activism.
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Biography of John Elsas (excerpt)
John Elsas, born Jonas Mayer on July 6, 1851, in Frankfurt am Main and passing away on June 5, 1935, in the same city, was a German painter. He spent most of his life working as a merchant and stockbroker, only fully dedicating himself to art in 1927, at the age of 76.
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Biography of Mathias-Marie Duval (excerpt)
Mathias-Marie Duval, born on February 7, 1844, in Grasse and died on February 28, 1907, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, was a French professor of anatomy and histology.He was the son of the botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810-1883). Mathias-Marie Duval studied medicine in Paris.
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Biography of Maurice Rouvier (excerpt)
Maurice Pierre Rouvier, born on April 17, 1842, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and died on June 7, 1911, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), was a French banker, journalist, and statesman. An opportunistic republican, he served as a deputy, several times as a minister, and twice as President of the Council of Ministers.
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Biography of William Craigie (excerpt)
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a renowned philologist and lexicographer. A University of St Andrews alumnus, he became the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-edited its 1933 supplement with C. T. Onions.
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Biography of Marie Dihau (excerpt)
Marie Dihau (September 12, 1843, Lille – May 14, 1935, Paris) was a French soprano, pianist, and teacher of singing and piano. Biography She won first prize at the Lille Conservatory in 1862 and later performed as a pianist for the Concerts Colonne and a singer with the Société des concerts du Conservatoire.
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Biography of Isala Van Diest (excerpt)
Isala Van Diest, born on May 7, 1842, in Louvain and passed away on February 9, 1916, in Knokke, was the first female doctor and the first female university graduate in Belgium. Daughter of a progressive surgeon, she went to study in Switzerland due to limited opportunities in Belgium.
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Biography of Édouard Brissaud (excerpt)
Édouard Brissaud, born April 15, 1852, in Besançon and died December 19, 1909, in Paris, was a renowned French physician specializing in neurology, anatomo-pathology, and medical history. A student of Charcot, Broca, and Lasègue, he later became a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and a hospital physician.
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Biography of Maurice Sand (excerpt)
Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld, Baron Dudevant, known as Maurice Sand (born June 30, 1823, in Paris and died September 4, 1889, in Nohant-Vic), was a French writer, entomologist, and painter. The son of George Sand, he lived his entire life close to her.He married Lina Calamatta in 1862 and had two daughters.
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Biography of Gilbert de Séverac (excerpt)
Gilbert Alexandre de Séverac (August 18, 1834 – November 17, 1897) was a French painter known for his portraits.Born in Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze, he was the father of composer Déodat de Séverac. Coming from French nobility, he studied at the military school of Sorèze before pursuing law studies in Toulouse, which he abandoned in favor of art.
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Biography of Anatole Chauffard (excerpt)
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (* 22 August 1855 in Avignon; † 1 November 1932 in Paris) was an internationally renowned French physician, professor of clinical medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Biography of Leo von König (excerpt)
Leo Freiherr von König (28 February 1871 - 19 April 1944) was a German painter and a member of the Berlin Secession. He was the eldest son of Götz von König, a cavalry general, and Baroness Hertha von Cramm. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Art and later at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1897. ![]()
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The Orsini affair comprised the diplomatic, political and legal consequences of the "Orsini attempt" (French: attentat d'Orsini): the attempt made on 14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris.
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Biography of Auguste Houzeau (excerpt)
Auguste Houzeau (3 March 1829, Elbeuf – 17 February 1911, Rouen) was a French agronomist and chemist. He studied at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris, where he took chemistry classes from Jean-Baptiste Boussingault.He later served as a professor at the École préparatoire à l'enseignement supérieur des sciences et des lettres in Rouen, and in 1883 was appointed director of the Station agronomique de la Seine-Inférieure.
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Biography of Henri Borel (excerpt)
Henri Jean François Borel (* November 23, 1869, in Dordrecht; † August 31, 1933, in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. Life Henri Borel studied Chinese language and literature in Leiden and Amoy.In 1894, he became a Chinese interpreter in the Dutch East Indies, took a leave of absence in 1899, and then settled in The Hague.
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Biography of Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (excerpt)
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, born on February 8, 1856, in Rouen and died on February 17, 1901, at the Château de Montgrimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Inférieure), was a French industrialist and inventor, a pioneer of the automobile, and the founder of Automobile Delamare-Deboutteville.
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Biography of Charles Moureu (excerpt)
François Charles Léon Moureu (19 April 1863, in Mourenx – 13 June 1929, in Biarritz) was a French organic chemist and pharmacist. In 1902 Charles Moureu published Notions fondamentales de chimie organique, translated into English as Fundamental principles of organic chemistry (1921).
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Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
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Biography of Friedrich Naumann (excerpt)
Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle. |
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